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Fittings/Hull Another year and hopefully our catalogue and website updates greet it on time. The UK government plans to change the Value Added Tax (VAT) rate back to 17.5% from 15% from 1st January 2010. Clearly this factor has a significant impact on almost all our prices. However, UK and European customers have benefited from a reduction in VAT levels for the whole of 2009 while the 2010 VAT increase will have no impact on customers outside of Europe. New since last year
News of last year
There is now more information on this website, especially in photographic form, concerning our boats. If you are considering placing an order for one of our boats we would appreciate it if you studied the photographs and the specifications so you are familiar with what you will be receiving. Custom variations are possible although they are rarely necessary. The reason for this is that our production boats generally reflect the best possible practise we can employ – if we find a better way of building the boat, or a better design of component part, our approach is to incorporate it as soon as possible. However, the phrase “look on the website” is not the answer to all the questions so please give us a call or e mail if you fail to find what you are looking for. We also keep a “wish list” to which we add requests for particular items that we do not yet make. If there are enough requests we will go into production. Lorna and Graham cope with the work load thanks to the continued help of Philip Vinton, Denis Astbury, Katherine dos Fernandes, Paul Everett, Emma Frankish and, new to us in 2009, Jorge Hernandez. We have lost the much valued help of Sam McCall this year and wish him well with his degree course. So, it’s very much business as usual. In fact recently someone ordered £1600 worth of goods at 5 pm on a Friday for collection on the Monday morning…… which we duly accomplished. Clearly he had not read or understood what we said last year so we will repeat it here. “Make life easier for yourself and us by:
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Lastly we’d like to draw your attention to the extensive FAQs page of the website. It has recently been re-ordered to make it easier to access and thoroughly revised. If you have any questions regarding our products, their use, or our recommendations, you will may well find the answers there. You will also find a whole host of other useful information. Happy reading.”
Single block with shackle – 61TD - £12.25 CNC machined tough plastic component parts with a stainless steel shackle and simple bearing. Super-light but strong enough for most applications in boats up to IOM size. Single block, for deck mounting – 63TD - £11.25 CNC machined tough plastic component parts and simple bearing. Super-light but strong enough for most applications in boats up to IOM size. Tiller arm for 4 mm stock – 68-040 - £8.75 The high cost of carbon fibre has led us to look at using a laser cut stainless steel component for this item. The result is an extremely robust tiller arm capable of being tightened extremely well onto a 4 mm stock. A standard component part in all our boats.
Fin box and mast tubes moulding – 338rg - £38.75 Carbon/epoxy moulding for RG65 and Footy class, 6 mm wide trunking for fin to take 370RG. Use the moulding one way to give two masts tubes and the other way to give a single mast tube in an intermediate position
Fin moulding – 370rg - £81.00 Suitable for RG65 and Footy classes and other yachts in the 300 mm to 700 mm range. 375 mm length x 65 mm chord at top tapering to 35 mm chord at bottom, with edges fully finished. For best results it needs to be rubbed down with fine wet and dry abrasive paper and lightly sprayed.
Parts/Spars Carbon fibre tapered tube, 18 mm diameter – item CR180E - £53.50 Tapered Batten Sets– BS-M - £14.00 Set of ten tapered self adhesive battens, 2 at 99 mm long, 2 at 74 mm long, 1 at 60 mm long, for IOM Class. These are made of 0.3 mm glass/epoxy sheet with a self adhesive backing and need to be separated from each other before use. Tapered Batten Sets– BS-T - £13.25 Set of ten tapered self adhesive battens, 2 at 99 mm long, 2 at 74 mm long, 1 at 60 mm long, for IOM Class. These are made of 0.2 mm glass/epoxy sheet with a self adhesive backing and need to be separated from each other before use. Carbon fibre high modulus UD tape – item CT-HM - £23/metre High modulus, 100 grams/metre^2, 200 mm wide uni-directional carbon tape. Use this for making top quality fins where stiffness is crucial to stability. Particularly useful in the RG65 and FOOTY classes but also for optimising IOM fins. Graffito – Ten Rater - £45 This design is related to the successful DIAMOND hull form and is optimised for best performance in breezy conditions. Builders looking for a boat optimised for light airs should choose IOTA or IONA. GRAFFITO needs to be built light for best performance and we would welcome enquiries from builders able to offer top quality moulded hulls. The carbon/epoxy fin and rudder 370a/360a are recommended. The plan shows the suggested layout for foils, ballast and conventional rig. Romanza – 6 Metre - £45 A revised hull form tuned to give a design that will compete across the wind speed range with the best existing designs in this class i.e. RENAISSANCE & ROCOCO providing it is built to the same standard. In fact the VPP has shown these two earlier designs are exceptionally difficult to beat across the range of headings and wind speeds. This is part of the reason why ROMANZA is the first design in the class we have released since 1996. Sections shown full size. Other lines shown at half size. Frame sizes are given for 3.5 mm thick planks. Make fin & rudder as shown on the MONARCH plan or use moulded items 350g/350h/360a/200-180 for best results. It is possible hull mouldings will become available in the UK in due course – contact SAILSetc for details. Gunboat – A Class - £60 This design is aimed primarily at folk who want a light and easy to handle boat that will give good performance. Capable of top level performance in light airs that can be stretched, by top level build quality, into the territory where SWORD comes into its own. Original thoughts were that 12 kgs would be too low to give a boat able to compete with the best above 6 knots but it seems this may be unduly pessimistic. The new design has a hull form closely related to the successful SWORD but has dimensions optimised to provide the best boat speed below 4 knots and to be as good as possible above that. Regardless of building weight the boat will be good below 4 knots true wind speed providing the foils, ballast and rig are also top quality. Building the boat as light as possible will enable good performance to be extended up the wind speed range where ballast ratio inevitably become an important factor. The design has, necessarily, been drawn close to the limits of the class rules and will require careful building if it is to gain the advantages it should have. For example it will be necessary to check the building shadows before adding planks to ensure there are no ‘illegal’ hollows above the waterline. For these reasons GUNBOAT should be seen as an alternative design to PRIVATEER rather than as a replacement. Charles Détriché book – item BK-44 - £22.50 A third volume bringing his design output from recent years thoroughly up to date. Classes covered are Footy, Half Metre, IOM, Phigit, Marblehead and Ten Rater. Additionally Charles proposes designs suitable for One Design classes at 500, 650, 700 and 760 mm overall length and an open class much like a small Ten Rater. There are no less than 16 IOM designs in this book, many of which are developments/refinements of earlier designs. Usefully Charles has included commentary text to help the potential builder choose between them. A great strength of his designs is that the vast majority have been built and sailed. Thus the builder can be confident of getting the boats balanced easily without the need for major surgery to foils or movement of the rig. In fact, for this reason alone, the designs are valuable data for any naval architect or serious student of yacht balance. As usual there are no construction details but all information is given regarding size and position of foils, ballast and sails. Buy all three of Charles's books for £55. International Marblehead PRIME NUMBER We have developed a modified deck mould enabling us to make hulls fully optimised for use with a swing rig. The deck is flattened amidships and rises gently towards the bow and then more aggressively at the bow itself. Boats that will be used with swing rigs only will be quicker to complete and therefore less costly. However, the lowered recess for a traditional rig is retained as is the recess moulded into the foredeck for headsail swivel attachments used with traditional rigs so there remains the possibility of using traditional rigs in combination with a swing rig for best light airs performance. Prices will become available when we have made the first production boats. International One Metre VEKTOR We can now offer A hull shell mouldings, a hull moulding with added deck and fin/mast trunking, and hull kits of the VEKTOR design. This design was offered as a SAILSetc plan in 2006 and our 'Yacht Design Notes' contain the following: The mould differs from our usual format by having a hull to deck join around the deck edge. The hulls are moulded in clear gel coat and would need to be abraded and sprayed or brush painted. Hulls have a raised foredeck, lowered area around the mast, a conventional flat deck aft of that as well as a mast tube/fin box. For the complete specification and prices please see the Boats/IOM section.
Completed Boats Spray finish ballasts We will no longer offer spray finished ballasts on SAILSetc boats EXCEPT when the customer will collect the ballast. We much regret this step but carriers/couriers have continued to perform abysmally and frequently wreck our nicely finished ballasts in spite of our best efforts to protect them during delivery. Two things compound this failing. The package itself is rarely damaged when the goods are delivered to the customer so the customer signs for delivery (thus accepting the goods are satisfactory). Any claim against the carrier is then impossible – they argue the packaging is inadequate and the customer signed for the goods anyway. The customer is unhappy. We are fairly un-impressed too especially as we spend a lot of time and money on packaging and, amazingly, have also paid for insurance……… and time spent complaining is usually a total waste of more of our valuable time. No one carrier is any better than any of the others so we have accepted that we cannot offer spray finished ballasts unless they are collected from our workshops by the customer. We will offer ballast up to ‘ready to spray’ stage leaving the customer the task of finishing this item. If the ballast arrives damaged it is usually only cosmetic damage to the aft end and this can be rectified using polyester filler before going on to the spray stage. We have always used grey cellulose primer spray as it gives the best coverage in the shortest time. It is easy to rub down to a smooth finish and easy to re-touch if the surface is marked. One Metre and Ten Rater ballasts may be carbon coated for an additional charge. Thankfully these survive the attentions of the carriers a little better than sprayed ballasts so we will continue to offer these as options. However, unless we can make these items in Tungsten I think we will never be able to fully guarantee delivery of a ballast in perfect shape.
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